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OF THE

SEVENTEENTH MEETING

OF THE

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE,

COMMENCING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868,

IN THE

CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CHICAGO:

Church, Goodman and Donnelley, Printers to the Academy of Sciences.

ON RECEPTION MESSRS. RAUCH, SAFFORD, McCAGG, RICE AND BROSS.

ON LODGING AND ENTERTAINMENT MESSRS, SCAMMON, McCAGG, DOGGETT, BROSS,

THOMPSON, GAGE AND HAY.

ON ROOMS -MESSRS. BLANEY, WALKER AND ANDREWS.

ON FINANCE- - MESSRS. DOGGETT, WALKER, BEATY AND BROSS.

MESSRS. DANIELS, SHELDON, BEATY, BLATCHFORD, WILSON AND
SMITH.

ON RAILROADS 3-MESSRS. CHESBROUGH, FOSTER, SHELDON AND BLANEY.

RULES OF Membership.

RULE 1. Members of scientific societies or learned bodies having in view any of the objects of this Association, and publishing transactions, shall be considered [permanent] members on subscribing to these rules.

RULE 2. Collegiate professors, also civil engineers and architects, who have been employed in the construction or superintendence of public works, may become [permanent] members on subscribing to these rules.

"RULE 3. Persons not embraced in the above provisions may become members of the Association upon recommendation in writing by two members, nomination by the Standing Committee, and election by a majority of the members present.

Resolution 9. Associate members may be admitted for one, two, or three years, as they shall choose at the time of admission to be elected in the same way as permanent members, and to pay the same dues. They shall have all the social and scientific privileges of members, without taking part in the business.”

The admission fee of new members is five dollars, in addition to the annual subscription, which, including the price of the volume of Proceedings, is three dollars for all members. These dues should be paid at as early a period as possible. They will be received by the Permanent Secretary, at the office of the Local Committee. According to Rule 21 of the Constitution, no person shall be considered a member until the dues for the meeting are paid.

The general sessions will be held in Library Hall, which has been generously placed at the disposal of the Local Committee by the Young Men's Library Association. This hall is situated in Metropolitan Block, corner of LaSalle and Randolph streets. The sections will meet in two smaller halls in the same building. The sections of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry will meet in Caledonian Hall, and the section of Natural History in the hall formerly occupied by the Academy of Sciences.

The public generally are invited to attend the meetings, both general and sectional. Foreign scientific gentlemen, who may be in the city, are particularly invited to attend, and to make themselves known to the Local Committee.

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The Local Committee will be in attendance at their room in the Sherman House, adjoining the room of the Permanent Secretary - the members of the committee being distinguished by a badge, in order that they may be easily found by those desiring information. Each member of the committee will be provided with a list of hotels, with the reduced rates at which some of them offer accommodations.

Members, and those who wish to become members, are requested, on their arrival in Chicago, to proceed, as soon as convenient, to the office of the Local Committee, to register their names, professions, residences, the routes of travel by which they have reached the city, and (as soon as may be) their place of abode. At this office they will be furnished with their "members' tickets" and other documents, and with a map of the city.

Letters directed to the care of the Association, may be found at the office of Mr. Robson, Librarian of the Y. M. Association, on the same floor with Library Hall.

THE DAILY PROGRAMME will be ready for distribution in Library Hall, at the convening of the general session, each day at 10, A.M. Or, it may be subsequently found at the Librarian's office.

The Reading Room of the Young Men's Association, containing the chief daily papers and other periodical literature of the country will be open to the members during the week of the meeting.